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Homer, Iliad 11. 36 ff:"[The shield of Agamemnon:] And he took up the man-enclosing elaborate stark shield, a thing of splendour. There were ten circles of bronze upon it, and set about it were twenty knobs of tin, pale-shining, and in the very centre another knob of dark cobalt.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously ...
The Man and The Monster; or The Fate of Frankenstein: Charles Stanton Ogle: 1910: Frankenstein: Percy Standing: 1915: Life Without Soul: Umberto Guarracino: 1920: The Monster of Frankenstein: Boris Karloff: 1931: Frankenstein: 1935: Bride of Frankenstein: 1939: Son of Frankenstein: 1962: Route 66': "Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing" (TV series ...
In Greek mythology, Deimos / ˈ d aɪ m ɒ s / (Ancient Greek: Δεῖμος, lit. 'fear' [1] pronounced) is the personification of fear. [2] He is the son of Ares and Aphrodite, and the brother of Phobos.
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A prosopopoeia (Ancient Greek: προσωποποιία, / p r ɒ s oʊ p oʊ ˈ p iː ə /) is a rhetorical device in which a non-human element speaks or is spoken to as a human. The term derives from the Greek words prósopon (transl. face, person) and poiéin (transl. to make, to do).
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Personification in the Bible is mostly limited to passing phrases which can probably be regarded as literary flourishes, [18] with the important and much-discussed exception of Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs, 1–9, where a female personification is treated at some length, and makes speeches. [19]